An MP has been forced to defend an "ordinary, decent" heavy metal band after a collaboration led to claims the group were using Nazi symbols in a poster.

Shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon made a guest appearance on a track by rockers Dream Troll, whose members he has known since he was a teenager, and posted details of the collaboration on his Facebook page.

A story then appeared in The Sun stating that the band's motto - "We Sold Our Soul For Rock 'N Troll" - uses two "S" letters in a font similar to Hitler's SS.

Responding to the report, the Leeds East MP insisted the group has no connections with the far-right and dismissed the claims as "utter, utter rubbish".

Posting on Facebook, he said: "The other week, a local Leeds band - the wonderfully named Dream Troll, whose members I've known since we were all heavy metal-obsessed teenagers - asked me, for a bit of fun, to do a guest appearance on their new song, reading a few lines to add dramatic effect to a classic swords and sorcery-style heavy metal narrative.